Corporations
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Engie Energía Chile has signed a 15-year power purchase agreement with steel company CAP Acero.
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Canadian Solar has signed power purchase agreements with two companies in Brazil, Braskem and Copel Energia, for a combined 274 MW (DC) of solar capacity.
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The government of Brazil is sticking to its guns, trying to push through the privatization of Eletrobras in this calendar year.
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Developers in Mexico presented bids on June 15 to participate in a tender for geothermal exploration and drilling projects in the country, which has been in the works since 2018.
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BNDESPar, the private investment arm of Brazilian development bank BNDES, has hired a financial adviser to assist with the sale of its stake in AES Tietê Energia.
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French energy company Engie has closed a R$2.51 billion ($485 million) loan with Brazilian development bank BNDES to finance the construction of its Novo Estado transmission line project.
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Canada's Polaris Infrastructure is looking to enter the Panamanian power market with the acquisition of a 10 MW hydro plant from Navitas Holdings.
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Zona Energía's private auction in Chile will benefit from a reform that bans Chile's power distribution companies from selling power to large consumers known as clientes libres or free clients.
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Petrobras and Wobben Windpower have entered the binding phase of the sale process of two jointly-owned wind assets in Brazil.
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The Dominican Republic’s National Commission on Energy (CNE) has awarded concessions for 100 MW across two power projects and a transmission line in the country.
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Spanish developer 360 Clean Energy is laying the groundwork for a small-scale solar project in the Chilean region of Maule, under the PMGD (Pequeños Medios de Generación Distribuida) distributed generation scheme.
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Chilean company Saggitar is moving forward with the development of a small-scale solar project that will qualify under the country's PMGD (Pequeños Medios de Generación Distribuida) distribution generation scheme.
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Mexico's Business Coordinating Council has hit back at transmission fee hikes by state-owned utility Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE), describing the policy as “illegal and inadmissible” and "indefensible."
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Oil and gas company Shell is increasing its efforts to build solar projects in Brazil, registering a 10-project complex called Barnard Solar with a total capacity of 467 MW.
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Argentinian developer Central Puerto has begun selling generation from a wind project in Tucumán province to Swedish auto company Scania under a long-term power purchase agreement.
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An infrastructure and energy lawyer is among six attorneys recently promoted to partner by Brazilian law firm Mattos Filho.
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Chile’s economic development agency Corfo is launching a $39 million credit line for renewable energy and energy efficiency projects in the country.
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Sempra Energy aiming to close the previously announced sale of its Chilean assets to State Grid International Development on June 24.
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Mexico’s state-owned Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) is planning a procurement process for a transmission project in the state of Baja California, adding to the country’s transmission pipeline.
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Spain's OPDEnergy is nearing financial close on a pair of renewable energy assets in Chile, a process that began in November 2019.
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Pacific Hydro, a renewable energy company with assets in Australia, Chile and Brazil, is looking to refinance corporate debt with a roughly $400 million loan.
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Colombian power producer Isagén is plotting the development of its first wind farm in the country, which would be Colombia's largest to date.
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Spain’s OPDEnergy has agreed to sell a majority stake in two solar parks in Mexico to Riverstone Holdings and is also planning to launch a joint venture with the asset management firm.
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Spain's Solarpack is planning to sell a 9 MW solar project that is under construction in the Chilean region of Maule.
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Greenpeace and the Mexican Center for Environmental Law (CEMDA) have secured a temporary suspension of policies introduced by Mexican grid operator Cenace and the Secretariat of Energy (SENER) that threaten to delay the interconnection of renewable energy projects in the country.
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Spain's Acciona is developing a 43.2 MW wind farm in the Chilean region of La Araucanía – its seventh project in the country.
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Enel has brought forward the schedule for shuttering its two coal-fired units in Chile from 2024 to 2022.
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Colombian power distributor Electrificadora de Huila (Electrohuila) is preparing to begin construction on a 24.23-mile (39 km) transmission line in the southern state of Huila.
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EDF has received the green light to acquire up to 600 MW of wind projects in Brazil from developer PEC Energy, a subsidiary of Grupo Engeform.
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Mexico’s state-owned Comisión Federal de Electricidad (CFE) has launched a tender for a 25 MW geothermal project.
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Developers in Argentina have faced an inhospitable project finance market since 2018, but the country's leading wind developer Genneia has managed to finance no fewer than nine wind projects in the past two years, using creative structures including the company's first ECA-backed corporate loan.
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Canadian renewable energy developer Saturn Power has obtained an operating permit for a 6 MW solar project in Bermuda.
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Spanish conglomerate Activos en Renta Grupo Corporativo and Chilean developer Energías Renovables Saintec are in the process of permitting a 54.45 MW solar project in the country’s Atacama region.
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Panama's state-owned transmission company Empresa de Transmisión Eléctrica (Etesa) must reevaluate its proposed Fourth Line project (Cuarta Línea) on the Atlantic coast, after the country's Public Services Authority (ASEP) rejected its latest proposal.
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Enel Green Power's distribution subsidiary in Chile, Enel Distribución, is negotiating a debt package with IDB Invest to ease its Covid-19-related liquidity problems.
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Brazilian technology company Tivit has signed a contract to purchase power from Casa dos Ventos’ 504 MW Rio do Vento wind project in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Norte.
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German developer Notus Energy is working on a 168 MW wind farm in the Chilean region of Biobío.
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Spain's Grenergy Renovables is planning to sell a five-project portfolio of solar projects totaling 52 MW in Chile.
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A Chilean developer is looking for an investor to acquire a majority stake in a 150 MW distributed generation portfolio in the country.
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Engie has signed loans with Brazilian development bank BNDES to finance the construction of two projects in Brazil, a wind farm and a transmission line.
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A group of renewable energy developers in Mexico have won a legal reprieve against grid operator Cenace' suspension of interconnections for wind and solar projects.
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Grupo Ibereólica and EDF Energies Nouvelles are nearing financial close on the refinancing and expansion of a jointly owned wind asset in Chile.
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Eosol Energy, the renewable arm of Spain’s engineering company Grupo Eosol, is developing a 227.46 MW (DC) solar project in Chile.
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Canada’s Greenbriar Capital Corp has inked a power purchase and operating agreement for an up-to-160 MW solar project in Puerto Rico.
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Atlas Renewable Energy is negotiating an up to $90 million financing with IDB Invest to fund the expansion of its Juazeiro solar project in Brazil.
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Eneva has given up on its attempt to merge with AES Corp’s Brazilian subsidiary AES Tiete, at least for now.
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Chile’s Verano Capital is working on a 90 MW solar park in Antofagasta, which is expected to require an investment of $90 million.
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Development finance institution IDB Invest is preparing a debt package for Naturgy Energy's distribution companies in Panama, which are facing liquidity problems as a result of the government's response to Covid-19.
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Petrobras has started the non-binding phase of the sale of its minority stake in natural gas pipeline network Nova Transportadora do Sudeste.
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Brazil’s power regulator Aneel has approved the opening of a public consultation on bidding documents for a proposed auction of transmission line projects.
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Mexico's Secretariat of Energy (SENER) has officially announced a measure to limit the development of renewable projects in the country, prompting a backlash from industry groups.
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Independent power producer Sonnedix has added to its renewable energy development pipeline in Chile with a 150 MW (DC) solar project.
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Grupo Ibereólica and Global Power Generation, a subsidiary of Spain's Naturgy Energy Group, has mandated a commercial bank to structure a loan for a 204 MW wind project in Chile.
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Innergex Renewable Energy has acquired an operational 68 MW solar plant in Chile as well as 11-year demand-based power purchase agreements from three sellers.
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Engie plans to invest some R$3 billion ($515 million) to build the 1,800 km Novo Estado transmission line in Brazil.
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Petrobras has issued a teaser for the sale of four thermal generation plants in Brazil totaling 578 MW.
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Atlas Renewable Energy is aiming to close the financing for a 444 MW (DC) solar project in Mexico in late June or early July.
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AES Corp's Panamanian subsidiary has acquired an operational 55 MW wind farm in the country from Goldwind Americas.
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IDB Invest is preparing a credit line for AES Corp's distribution subsidiaries in El Salvador, which face liquidity challenges as a result of government measures to mitigate the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on consumers.
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While Mexico's power sector grapples with the country's power pandemic policy, the Secretariat of Energy (SENER) plans a new measure that could further harm renewables.
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